mockとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English mokken, from Old French mocquer, moquier (“to deride, jeer”), from Middle Dutch mocken (“to mumble”) or Middle Low German mucken (“to grumble, talk with the mouth half-opened”), both from Old Saxon *mokkian, *mukkian (“to low, bellow; mumble”), from Proto-Germanic *mukkijaną, *mūhaną (“to low, bellow, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *mūg-, *mūk- (“to low, mumble”). Cognate with Dutch mokken (“to sulk; pout; mope; grumble”), Old High German firmucken (“to be stupid”), Modern German mucksen (“to utter a word; mumble; grumble”), West Frisian mokke (“to mope; sulk; grumble”), Dutch dialectal mokkel (“kiss”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /mɒk/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /mɑk/
• 韻: -ɒk

名詞

mock (複数形 mocks)

1. An imitation, usually of lesser quality.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Crashaw to this entry?)

2. Mockery, the act of mocking.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Proverbs 14:9, column 2:

     Fooles make a mocke at ſinne: but among the righteous there is fauour.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

     Thus says my king; an if your father's highness
     Do not, in grant of all demands at large,
     Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,
     He'll call you to so hot an answer of it

3. A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam.

   He got a B in his History mock, but improved to an A in the exam.

4. (software engineering) A mockup or prototype.
   • 2013, Jeff Langr, Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development:

     You can, if you must, create a mock that derives from a concrete class. The problem is that the resulting class represents a mix of production and mocked behavior, a beast referred to as a partial mock.

派生語

• mocksome

動詞

mock (三人称単数 現在形 mocks, 現在分詞 mocking, 過去形および過去分詞形 mocked)

1. To mimic, to simulate.
   • c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:

     To see the life as lively mocked as ever / Still sleep mocked death.

   • c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Mocking marriage with a dame of France.

2. (まれに) To create an artistic representation of.
   • 1818, Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias"

     ...its sculptor well those passions read

     Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

     The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed...

3. To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Kings 18:27, column 1:

     And it came to paſſe at noone, that Eliiah mocked them, and ſaide, Crie aloud: for he is a god, either he is talking, or he is purſuing, or hee is in a iourney, or peraduenture he ſleepeth, and muſt be awaked.

   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

     Let not ambition mock their useful toil.

4. To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act V, Scene III:

     And with his spirit sadly I survive, / to mock the expectations of the world; / to frustrate prophecies, and to raze out / rotten opinion […]

   • 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene III:

     "It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke / The meate it feeds on."

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Judges 16:13, column 2:

     And Delilah ſaid vnto Samſon, hitherto thou haſt mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mighteſt be bound.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     Why do I overlive? / Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out / to deathless pain?

   • 1671, John Milton, “Book the Second”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398:

     He will not […] / Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.

   • 1765, Benjamin Heath, A revisal of Shakespear's text, page 563 (a commentary on the "mocke the meate" line from Othello):

     ‘Mock’ certainly never signifies to loath. Its common signification is, to disappoint.

   • 1812, The Critical Review or, Annals of Literature, page 190:

     The French revolution indeed is a prodigy which has mocked the expectations both of its friends and its foes. It has cruelly disappointed the fondest hopes of the first, nor has it observed that course which the last thought that it would have pursued.

5. (software engineering, transitive) To create a mockup or prototype of.

   What's the best way to mock a database layer?

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:mock
• See also Thesaurus:imitate

派生語

• mock out
• much-mocked

参考

• jeer

形容詞

mock (not comparable)

1. Imitation, not genuine; fake.

   mock turtle soup

   mock leather